Philip C James
PhilipCJames@mas.to
<p>English/German-speaking Brython living in Austenland; careless as carless, hard-science grasping, liberal-leaning, creativity-yearning, Bohemian-aspiring humanist.</p><p>Allergy Warning: May Contain Fiction. And Nuts</p><p>Banner: ISS over NZ (Getty)<br />Avatar: Horsehead Nebula, Six Star System, Alien on an Asteroid (Own Work)</p>
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Post #3701645
Clearly, a man worth around $1,000,000,000,000 can have done nowt wrong... #USpol #GOP #MAGA #DOGE #Musk #ElonMusk #Trump #PublicHealth #CDC #RFKjr #Ebola #Africa https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-ebola-usaid-and-how-musks-spending-cuts-will-kill-millions/?utm_campaign=968afe29-39e7-45b6-a2e0-e403e0d51196&utm_source=1234571
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Post #3677532
Good Morning, all, President Donald Jesus Trump, aka corrupt crime family Godfather Don Trumpeone, aka Pardon Wholesaler and Commander-in-Thief Donald Tantrump instantly puts the Karen in Karma: despite his efforts to put his decaying thumb on the scales, plucky tiny Belgium defeats the mighty United States of Trump 4-1 at footie… #USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump #ReverseMidasEffect #BZBelgium #WorldCupCorruption #Corruption #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #TyrantTrump #IranWar #PutinsWar #ClimateEmergency #A...
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Post #3621986
MAGA Man to MAGA woman, nostalgically: "Back in the Good Ol' Days, in that distant Golden Age under Emperor Trump, we made our own entertainment..." Only the Gullible deserve the Fair. #USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump #GreatAmericanStateFair #Freedom250 #NoKings #TyrantTrump #EpsteinFiles #PedoProtectorInChief #AdjudicatedRapist #Krasnov #AgentOrange #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/maga-influencer-arrested-masturbating-american-state-fair_n_6a4286...
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Post #3019400
Don't think of it as Universal Basic Income... Think of it as everyone collects £200 every time they pass Go... #UBI #MonopolyMoney H/T Mr Waller in #TNW
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Post #2639889
Morning, all, still waiting for your #TrumpPhone? Keep waiting... And relax with this proof copy of Trump&#39;s new book, &#39;The Art Of The Steal.&#39; #USpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA #ScammerInChief #TyrantTrump #NoKings #EpsteinFiles #Krasnov #AgentOrange #GodKingDonald https://youtu.be/7bZakWcCTDo?si=tpEdVFJ4oP-y-oEi
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Post #2639888
Met two young Ukrainian women at the Alice Park Cafe yesterday. They&#39;d stopped for a coffee before flying home. A long journey! The flight&#39;s the easiest part. Bus to Bristol Airport (not the easiest airport to get to - easier to fly there) Flight to Poland. Train to Kyiv. Final leg by local bus. Hope they got home safely. Not an empty expression when your country is a war zone not of your making. #SlavaUkrayini
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Post #2639887
Morning, all, &quot;why Putin should believe anyone ... might mistake Schröder for an impartial mediator is another question ... but shouldn’t we explore every avenue towards peace? Even the ones that lead through the Kremlin gift shop.&quot; Donald Jesus Trump expended more precious Patriot SAMs in the first 4 weeks of his #IranWar than Ukraine has received over 4 years of defending from Putin&#39;s aggression. We have let Ukraine down. #SlavaUkrayini #USpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA h...
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Post #2639886
Antenna 63 at the Madrid site of the Deep Space Network is dedicated to communication with Voyager 1 at the moment. Distance to the spacecraft: 25,400,000,000 kilometers. That&#39;s 23.5 hours one-way light travel time; it takes almost two days to send a telecommand and receive a response from the probe. I still find it astounding how far humanity&#39;s creativity can take us. #NASA #JPL #DSN #Space #SpaceExploration #Voyager #AmericasGoodSide #USpol https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-...
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Post #2639885
&quot;Meanwhile, Xi sleeps soundly. He does not personally use social media. He has no X account.&quot; Surely &quot;Xi has no Xi account...&quot;? #USpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA #Musk #TwitteX #NoKings #TyrantTrump #Krasnov #AgentOrange #ChinaUSrelations #Taiwan #SlavaUkrayini https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-china-2676890338/
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Post #2639884
Good Morning, all, an #AI was given the assignment of running a café in Sweden. Some choices it made appeared intelligent; it used LinkedIn not Sesame Street to hire its Swedish Chef. And its decision to order thousands of rubber gloves wasn&#39;t so questionable if it was driven by a dubious marketing initiative like offering customers free prostate exams. Hopefully it had the sense to limit the promotion to one probing per customer. #ArtificialIntelligence https://futurism.com/artifi...
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Post #2108110
In other news from across the Pond: That #WhiteHouse &#39;Ballroom&#39; that Donald Jesus Trump said would cost $200,000,000 paid for by private donors will now cost $1,000,000,000 paid for by U.S. taxpayers... Classic #BaitAndSwitch And stop calling it a ballroom. It&#39;s to be Emperor Tantrump&#39;s Throne Room. #USpol #Trump #NoKings #GOP #MAGA #TyrantTrump #TangerineTyrant #MangoMussolini #Krasnov #AgentOrange #DonTheCon #SlavaUkrayini https://www.youtube.com/live/pt1...
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Post #2108109
This is a tragic example of senseless violence perpetrated yet again against a woman by a former male partner. The Mirror newspaper is reporting the man used a hand-grenade to commit this alleged murder-suicide. What is particularly affecting is how local this is, personally. For non-Brits, Bristol is the western suburb of Greater Bath (where I live). Let me re-iterate. If you are a man contemplating murder-suicide against a former lover, commit the suicide _first_ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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Post #1966655
Bravo Zulu to Forbes for repeatedly highlighting how the Trump regime is actively working to emasculate the U.S. judiciary as a check &amp; balance on Donald Jesus Trump as Dictator. None of these bootpolishers &amp; arselickers standing for judicial posts would repeat a simple fact: under #USC #22A Donald Tantrump is not allowed to be elected #POTUS again, as he has been voted President twice already. For fear of offending their cult leader? #USpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA #NoKings https://...
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Post #1966648
Good Morning, all, and happy Bank Holiday? Awoke after dreaming lucidly that I was starting a new job in inner London. Being retired should&#39;ve alerted me I was dreaming. Actually, the final trigger was finding a multi-storey carpark just around the corner from the office that offered all-day parking for £7.25...
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Post #1966644
If we had more architects willing to challenge norms, buildings like this would not be so celebrated... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/04/the-last-resident-of-casa-mila-on-life-in-gaudis-masterwork
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Post #1772623
Donald Tantrump has spent around 2,000,000,000 taxpayer dollars buying back U.S. offshore wind leases and directing 'investment' (effectively subsidies) to #FossilFuels instead. Because delivery of fossil fuels through the Hormuz Strait is definitely reliable and in no way intermittent... #USpol #FossilFools #MAGA #GOP #TyrantTrump #NoKings #Corruption #IranWar #Trump https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-interior-02a1fa04b750809bbe035a70256c734d
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Post #1657030
I've a one dollar bill tucked away somewhere at home. Think I'll keep it until a one dollar bill without Trump's signature on it is worth $100...
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Post #1656674
The Gospel According To St. Quentin #Trump #GOP #MAGA #USpol #WhiteJesus #Hegseth https://youtu.be/taNi3btpaLs?si=ldHXKioTQaZoDKs8
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Post #1656361
Morning, all, why am I not surprised Grok produced the worst results of the GenAI pack... More of an Artificial Dumbass than an Artificial Intelligence. #AI #AIslop #LLM #Broligarchs #TechBros https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyepyy82kxo
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Post #1621020
Not a peep from the 'Men should not compete in women's sports' mob about a humanoid robot winning a half-marathon but just watch them throw their toys out of the pram were I to enter my Formula One racing car in the London Marathon... #GOP #MAGA #Trump #USpol #AI #TechBros #Broligarchy #FarRight
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Post #1619377
Morning, all, this is of course an (alleged) abuse of official position, 'insider trading', a breach of OPSEC and morally wrong, but one has to conclude that the real crime committed by Van Dyke was not being a member of Don Trumpeone's #Trump crime family... #USpol #GOP #MAGA #NoKings #TyrantTrump #TrumpCrimeFamily #Corruption #DOJ #CorruptDOJ #GodFatherTrump #DonTheCon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20832yg5p2o
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Post #1571454
Good Morning(ish), all, With the deluge of Bad US News, I thought I'd post some Good News; I searched my playlist for the report on how the nerves of the clitoris have been mapped for the first time (30 years after mapping the penile nerves). But I couldn't find it... So here instead: some Good #EU News on unfreezing a €90B loan to Ukraine after the electoral defeat of Viktor Orbán (and thus Vlad Putin & Don Trumpeone). #EUpol #USpol #SlavaUkrayini #GOP #MAGA #Trump https://you...
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Post #1523471
Morning-ish, all, that scene in 'Eyes Wide Shut' when Bill (Tom Cruise) reads of the 'Ex-beauty queen in hotel drugs overdose.' Was it sloppy copy work by the props department or was Stanley Kubrick posted a searing indictment of poor sub-editing standards at a New York newspaper - at least three of the lines of copy are repeated a couple of lines later!? It should be noted it was the New York Post Bill was reading in that coffee house. #BluRayDetectiveStories
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Post #1512417
The only War Donald J Tantrump has ever had an exit strategy for was the Vietnam War... #BoneSpurs #USpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA https://youtu.be/wWvLoxzK1hk?si=LcyupldqGTRroDt5
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Post #1491048
Donald Tantrump is talking (again) about pulling out of #NATO. Don Trumpeone's Mafia protection racket: 'Nice democracies you have there - it'd be a real shame if they burnt down...' President Trump might want to consider why the UK and other European countries would want to allow the United States of Trump to retain its bases here if no longer part of NATO. #USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump #TyrantTrump #EmperorTrump #NoKings https://youtu.be/8EjIMyxdXt4?si=l7yaZcvCy4LICQ-S
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Post #1483832
Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. Presumably Cook is stepping down to spend more time up Donald Tantrump's backside? Will be watching whether the new boss at Apple breaks from the Tech Bro Pack and their Tech Bromance with the nascent Emperor of all the Americas... #USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump #TyrantTrump #NoKings https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kr19lry18o
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Post #1482119
Good Morning, all, just a brief reminder that America is not just Trump and Trump is certainly not America... With a personal peripheral historical dalliance with the domain of space science, I remain in awe of what our species has achieved in beginning the physical exploration of our Cosmos, and America has been a huge part of that effort. The round-trip light travel time to/from Voyager 1 is almost _two_days_ (it's >15,000,000,000 miles from Earth). BZ! #NASA, #JPL https://science....
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Post #1433192
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116425777452697466 Stray thought: The flight deck of the CVN Gerald Ford looks amazingly empty as it transits the Suez Canal. Normally, US supercarrier flight decks are chocka with parked a/c (the hangars aren't large enough to allow all a/c in her air wing to be struck down). As one doesn't drive 100k tonnes through a canal at anything like fixed wing a/c launch speeds (wind over the deck is required), presumably the air wing is temporarily deplo...
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Post #1432299
Morning, all, U.S. police officers shot dead a man who killed eight children in Shreveport, LA. Donald J. Tantrump sending Leon Musk and his #DOGE magic-beancounters into #USAID last year has led to the premature deaths of circa 500,000 children around the globe. In defence of Don Trumpeone, the White House points out President Trump has stopped 10 wars so far - including several Mr Trump is yet to start... #Trump #GOP #MAGA #USpol #TyrantTrump #NoKings #25A 🧵 https://youtu.be/C3b2dd7NFZg?...
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Post #1202136
A review of the filum 'Orwell: 2+2=5' (about the genesis of Orwell's novel '1984') that I viewed at The Little Theatre, Bath last week. I highly recommend seeing the documentary about Eric Arthur Blair's last book - it's more than ever apposite as a warning, as Tech Bro Billionaires finally have the technical means by which to subjugate we Proles... #Trump #Farage #USPol #UKpol #Oceania #INGSOC #Thiel #Palantir #Musk #TwtteX https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-ble...